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Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa

In the imperial Gazetteer of India 1878, Pusa was recorded as a government estate of about 1350 acres in Darbhanba. It was acquired by East India Company for running a stud farm to supply better breed of horses mainly for the army. Frequent incidence of glanders disease (swelling of glands), mostly affecting the valuable imported bloodstock made the civil veterinary department to shift the entire stock out of Pusa. A British tobacco concern Beg Sutherland & co. got the estate on lease but it also left in 1897 abandoning the government estate of Pusa. Lord Mayo, The Viceroy and Governor General, had been repeatedly trying to get through his proposal for setting up a directorate general of Agriculture that would take care of the soil and its productivity, formulate newer techniques of cultivation, improve the quality of seeds and livestock and also arrange for imparting agricultural education. The government of India had invited a British expert. Dr. J. A. Voelcker who had submitted as report on the development of Indian agriculture. As a follow-up action, three experts in different fields were appointed for the first time during 1885 to 1895 namely, agricultural chemist (Dr. J. W. Leafer), cryptogamic botanist (Dr. R. A. Butler) and entomologist (Dr. H. Maxwell Lefroy) with headquarters at Dehradun (U.P.) in the forest Research Institute complex. Surprisingly, until now Pusa, which was destined to become the centre of agricultural revolution in the country, was lying as before an abandoned government estate. In 1898. Lord Curzon took over as the viceroy. A widely traveled person and an administrator, he salvaged out the earlier proposal and got London’s approval for the appointment of the inspector General of Agriculture to which the first incumbent Mr. J. Mollison (Dy. Director of Agriculture, Bombay) joined in 1901 with headquarters at Nagpur The then government of Bengal had mooted in 1902 a proposal to the centre for setting up a model cattle farm for improving the dilapidated condition of the livestock at Pusa estate where plenty of land, water and feed would be available, and with Mr. Mollison’s support this was accepted in principle. Around Pusa, there were many British planters and also an indigo research centre Dalsing Sarai (near Pusa). Mr. Mollison’s visits to this mini British kingdom and his strong recommendations. In favour of Pusa as the most ideal place for the Bengal government project obviously caught the attention for the viceroy.

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Subject: Agronomy × Author: Kumari, Alisha × End date: 2017 × Start date: 2017 × Type: Thesis ×
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    Effect of moisture regimes and weed management on direct seeded rice
    (Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa (Samastipur), 2017) Kumari, Alisha; Kumar, Rajan
    A field experiment was conducted during rainy (kharif) season of 2016 in split plot design with three replications at Crop Research centre, Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University, Pusa, Bihar to investigate the “Effect of moisture regimes and weed management on direct seeded rice”. The treatments consisted of three moisture regimes i.e. I1-Irrigation at 3 days disappearance of ponded water, I2-Irrigation at 5 days disappearance of ponded water and I3-Irrigation at 7 days disappearance of ponded water and 5 weed management treatments i.e. W1-Chlorimuron + Metsulfuron @ 20 + 4 g/ha at 15 DAS, W2-Pendimethalin @ 1 kg/ha at 0-3 DAS fb Chlorimuron + Metsulfuron @ 20 + 4 g/ha at 15 DAS, W3-Pendimethalin @ 1 kg/ha at 0-3 DAS fb Bispyribac sodium @ 30 g/ha at 20 DAS, W4-Weed free (20, 40 and 60 DAS) and W5-Weedy check. The test cultivar was Sugandh-5. The soil of experimental plot was sandy loam in texture, alkaline in reaction (pH 8.4), low in available N (152 kg/ha), P2O5 (19.23 kg/ha) and K2O (122 kg/ha). The result showed that growth and yield attributes like plant height, number of tillers/m2, LAI, dry matter production (g/m2), crop growth rate (g/m2/day), number of panicles/m2, number of spikelets/panicle, grain and straw yields, harvest index, K uptake by grain, total P uptake by crop, gross return and net return were found to be maximum and weed density and weed dry weight were minimum with I1 moisture regime which were significantly superior to I2 and I3 but panicle length, N and P uptake by rice grain, N, P and K uptake by straw, total N and K uptake by the crop, water productivity and B: C ratio were statistically at par with I2. Test weight, N, P and K content in grain and straw and WUE were not influenced by moisture regimes. Growth and yield attributes like plant height, number of tillers/m2, LAI, dry matter production, crop growth rate, number of panicles/m2, number of spikelets/panicle, grain yield, WUE and gross return were recorded maximum with W4 treatment of weed management which was significantly superior to W2, W1 and W5 but was statistically at par with W3 treatment while panicle length, straw yield, N, P and K uptake by rice grain and straw and total uptake by the crop were significantly superior to W1 and W5 and were comparable to W3 and W2 treatments. In case of Weed density, Weed dry weight and HI, W4 treatment was significantly superior to all the treatments. Test weight, N, P and K content in grain and straw did not vary significantly due to different weed management treatments. Maximum weed control efficiency and minimum weed index was observed with W3 among all the herbicidal treatments, though weed control efficiency was the highest with W4 treatment. Water productivity and net return were recorded maximum with W3 treatment which was significantly superior to W4 and W5 but was statistically at par with W2 and W1. B: C ratio was recorded maximum with W¬2 treatment which was significantly superior to W4 and W5 but was statistically at par with W3 and W1 treatments.